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News / BY: James A. Wilson, MD January/February 2006
... costs for dialysis in BC are expected to be reduced by $1.2 million in the 2005 fiscal year. With the launch of the ... the LTD benefits for all employees will be taxable. 2. Next, cover the cost of the group life benefit. Group life ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Hin Hin Ko, MD June 2006
... people were more than twice those of other racial groups. [2]  Furthermore, a retrospective study of BC Transplant ... (1% to 18%) than among non-Aboriginal populations (0.5% to 2%). [8] Similarly, high rates of viral hepatitis have been ... was found to be 0.82%, with the highest prevalence, 2.63%, found in those aged 40 to 59 years. In accordance with ...
Premise / BY: Michael F. Myers, MD, November 2006
... • When he was 4 years old, he lost his younger sister, 2-year-old Emma Henrietta. Her death was very hard for his ... in every movement, never rushing, never hesitating.” [2]  Osler went to bed at 10 p.m. and spent the next hour ... as professional as a writer as he was a physician.”  [2]  In 1891 he signed a book contract with D. Appleton and ...
Premise / BY: Faith E. Hayman, LLB, BA, BEd April 2006
... quoted the following passage in an Ontario decision, [2]  which described the nature of an insurance contract tied ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Jay Draper July/August 2006
... in the information technology session scheduled for 2 p.m.). It’s a question that’s been asked before, of ...
Clinical Articles December 2006
... injury, with reported prevalence “ranging over 50%.” [2]  Furthermore, patients are at risk for developing ... psychiatric disorders in general. Moldover and colleagues [2]  have recently argued that depression represents a ...
Editorials / BY: Derryck H. Smith, MD, FRCPC December 2006
... Guest editorial--Mild traumatic brain injury, Part 2 Treatment and support ...
Editorials / BY: Susan E. Haigh, MD June 2006
... well-respected cardiologist. We spent at least 2 hours with the patient before presenting the case to him at ...
News / BY: Fiona Youatt, October 2006
... for hip, knee, and other joint replacement, and (2) working with the GPSC and based upon patient needs, ... The JSC will determine how to allocate an additional $3.2 million between 1 April 2007 and 31 March 2010 to the ... Raised fasting blood sugar or previously diagnosed type 2 diabetes. • Reduced HDL cholesterol in the blood or ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Richard K. Elwood, MB, BCh, MRCP(UK), FRCPC March 2006
... MDR-TB still remains unusual in BC, representing less than 2% of our active cases. The most common resistance pattern ... fluoroquinolones, as well as sputum culture conversion at 2 months. A study from 1983–1998 in a tertiary care ...